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his Chester valley farm, a distance of 

 thirty miles, in one Jay. In his one hun- 

 dred and second year, he was cruelly 

 mal-treated by burglars who entered 

 his house, because he refused to dis- 

 close his hidden treasure. He did not 

 fully recover from the injuries then re- 

 ceived. He died on the 2Gth of January, 

 1790, aged one hundred and four years. 

 The father of Dr. Van Leer died in 

 1748, when he left a second wife named 

 Rebecca. For a more full notice of Dr. 

 Van Leer, written by Dr. Charles Mor- 

 ton, see " The Medical Rejjorter," Xo. vii. 



Veuxos, TnoMAS, from " Stanthorne," 

 County Palatine, of Chester, Kngland, 

 arrived a little before or with the Pro- 

 prietary, in 1682. He served as a juror 

 at the first Court held for the County 

 of Chester. He, with his brother, Ran- 

 dal Vernon, settled on adjoining tracts 

 of land in Nether Providence, and for 

 some time occupied but one dwelling, 

 at which the monthly meetings of the 

 Society of Friends in early times were 

 frequently held. He was an exemplary 

 member of the Society, and a good 

 citizen. Died, 1698. Thomas had not 

 entirely escaped religious persecution 

 in England. 



Vernon, Randal, from " Sandyway," 

 Cheshire, England, no doubt immi- 

 grated to the Province with his brothers, 

 Thomas and Robert, and located his 

 land in Nether Providence between the 

 tracts located by them. Besides being 

 an active and influential member of 

 the Society of Friends, he was fre- 

 quently entrusted with public business. 

 In 1687 he served as a member of the 

 Provincial Assembly. He died in 1725 

 at the advanced age of eighty-five 

 years, having survived his wife, Sarah, 

 six years. 



Veunon, Robert, came from Stoaks, 

 in Cheshire, England. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Society of Friends, but did 

 not take such an active part in meet- 

 ing affairs as Thomas and Randal, 

 though the monthly meetings were 

 sometimes held at his house. The time 

 of his death is not known ; but he was 

 alive in 1710, and that year conveyed 

 his brick megstiaffe and 330 acres of land, 

 ■where he resided, to his son Jacob. 

 His wife, Elinor, who came with him 



from England and survived him, died 

 in 1720. 



Veunon, Job, Captain in the Revolu- 

 tionary Army, was born in Lower Pro- 

 vidence, about the year 17.")0. He 

 entered the army at the commencement 

 of the Revolutionary war, and served 

 faithfully and without intermission 

 until its termination and the disband- 

 ing of the army. His name ajipears ia 

 the lists, printed by order of Congress, 

 of officers who served to the end of the 

 war, and thereby acquired the right to 

 half-pay and bounty lands, and also as 

 one of the founders of the Society of 

 Cincinnati. He was commissioned 

 Ensign in Capt. Thomas Church's com- 

 pany of Col. Anthony Wayne's Penn- 

 sylvania Battalion, January 5th, 1776, 

 and was promoted to be Lieutenant in 

 Capt. Thomas Robinson's company of 

 the same battalion, October 1st, 1776. 

 In 1779 and 1780 he was paymaster of 

 the Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment,which 

 was then commanded by Col. Francis 

 Johnston, and in which he also held 

 the commission of Captain This regi- 

 ment was attached to the Army of the 

 North, and seems to have participated 

 in all its services up to the storming of 

 Stony Point. Captain Vernon died in 

 Concord township about the year 1810. 

 From fragments of his accounts and 

 other documents in the possession of a 

 relative, he seems to have been an inti- 

 mate acquaintance and favorite of 

 General Wayne, and a very brave and 

 judicious officer. 



Vernon, Frederick, Major in the Re- 

 volutionary Army, a cousin of the pre- 

 ceding officer, was also born in Lower 

 Providence ; but nothing of his per- 

 sonal history nor any account of his 

 military services is known to be pre- 

 served. His name appears on the lists 

 above referred to as one who served 

 faithfully to the end of the war, and he 

 was also one of the founders of the 

 Society of Cincinnati. He was Major 

 in the First Pennsylvania Regiment of 

 Infantry. 



Wade, Robert, with his wife, Lydia, 

 were among the very earliest of the 

 English settlers that located them- 

 selves within our limits, as they were, 

 with scarcely a doubt, the first Quakers 

 who fixed their permanent abode with- 



